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A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1875
Journals of the Continental Congress --THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 1781
On motion of Mr. [Abraham] Clarke, seconded by Mr. [James] Duane,
Resolved, That the Board of Admiralty be authorised to exchange, as heretofore, any exchangeable prisoners of the enemy, taken in refugee boats, for our people prisoners with the enemy, the resolution of the 5th instant notwithstanding.
A letter, of 28 December, from Major General Greene;
A letter, of 8th, from Baron Steuben, and
A letter, of 10, from the governor of Virginia, were read:2
[Note 2: 2 Greene's letter is in thePapers of the Continental Congress, No. 155, I, folio 497. Steuben's is in No. 164, folio 202; the Virginia letter is in No. 71, II, folio 1.]
Ordered, That they be referred to the Board of War.
A report from the Board of War was read:
Ordered, That it be re-committed to the Board, and that they take order for having imported from France with all convenient speed the brass howitzers mentioned in Brigadier General Knox's letter, of 27 December:3
[Note 3: 3 This order was also entered in the manuscript Secret (Domestic) Journal.]
Ordered, That the Board of War give orders for furnishing the discharged non-commissioned officers and soldiers, late of the Pensylvania line, with one ration of provisions for every twenty miles, to support them on the way to their
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places of abode, and that the quantity furnished be endorsed on their respective discharges.
A letter, of 3, from Major General Gates, was read.1
[Note 1: 1 This letter is in thePapers of the Continental Congress, No. 154, II, folio 351.]
A report from the Board of Treasury was read; Whereupon,
Ordered, That on the application of Mr. [John] Mathews, a delegate for the State of South Carolina, a warrant issue in his favour on Thomas Smith, commissioner of the continental loan office for the State of Pensylvania, for twenty thousand dollars old emissions, for which the said State of South Carolina is to be accountable:
That on the application of Gillam Aertson, clerk at the war office, a warrant issue in his favour on Thomas Smith aforesaid for two hundred dollars new emissions, part of the balance of salary due to him, and for which he is to be accountable:
That on the application of John M. Jackson, one of the clerks in the secretary's office, a warrant issue in his favour on Thomas Smith aforesaid for one hundred and twenty-five dollars new emission, part of the balance of salary due to him, and for which he is to be accountable.
Ordered, That to Morrow, immediately after reading the journals, Congress be resolved into a Committee of the Whole to consider the reports respecting finance.
The committee appointed to report a compensation for the staff of the army &c.; and
The Committee of Commerce, to whom was referred the memorial of J. Henderson, delivered in their respective reports.
Congress took into consideration the report of the committee on the plan of executive boards, and, some time being spent thereon,
Adjourned to 10 o'Clock to Morrow.
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